[ltt-dev] [UST] malloc error found by david

[Nils Carlson]

On Sep 30, 2010, at 1:01 AM, David Goulet wrote:

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> On 10-09-29 04:40 PM, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> Hi Nils,
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>> Please double-check that you ported commit
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>> 38516ab59fbc5b3bb278cf5e1fe2867c70cff32e
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>>    tracing: Let tracepoints have data passed to tracepoint callbacks
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>> correctly from mainline. There is at least a bug in
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>> static inline void *allocate_probes(int count)
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>> (sizeof(void *) should be changed for sizeof(struct tracepoint_func))
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> Yes, but for UST, it's sizeof(struct probe), actually almost the  
> same but
> different name :P
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> This was introduce in UST from commit (in libust/tracepoint.c)
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> 1dba3e6c054da18f238d051da5b1839bd5e4e4dd
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> I really have NO idea how it came in because for that commit I only  
> changed the
> malloc to zmalloc. So I think, somekind of "merge" between patches  
> went wrong
> and git didn't notice. Shit happens ;)
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Yepp. Applied fix, haven't done any digging in how it got in there.

/Nils

> Thanks
> David
>
>>
>> Hopefully no other bugs crept in.
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>> Credits go to David Goulet, how just spent 2 days hunting this one  
>> down.
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>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mathieu
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>>
>>
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> David Goulet
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